Today on the Etch Podcast, we are delighted to welcome Suzanne Charlotte Vos, Innovation Strategist and Activator, Consultant & Speaker, currently working as an Innovation Coach & Consultant at ING Labs APAC where here goal is to make innovation business as usual.

Elvin Turner is an award-winning innovation expert and associate professor of innovation, entrepreneurship and marketing for MBA and executive education programmes. His book, "Be Less Zombie: How great organisations create dynamic innovation, fearless leadership and passionate people" came out earlier this year, and it distills 10 years of field research amongst some of the world’s leading innovators into a pragmatic, actionable toolkit. We talk about the innovation particle, leading by experiment and what needs to be true for innovative products to fly through an organisation.

We return with a second Season and an episode that embodies disruption, innovation and influence. Greg Larkin is the international bestselling author of This Might Get Me Fired. A Manual for Thriving in the Corporate Entrepreneurial Underground. We discuss what it takes for enterprise businesses to actually innovate, why working Agile won't save you and how you need to be running a portfolio of experiments to actually generate the return on innovation.

This time, we talk about the growing area of Growth Design with Lex Roman. Lex is a digital Product Designer who believes in measuring the impact of design.

Today's guest is Douglas Ferguson. Douglas is an entrepreneur and human-centered technologist with over 20 years of experience. He is the founder and president of Voltage Control, an Austin-based facilitation agency that specializes in helping teams work better together through participatory decision making and design inspired facilitation techniques. He has helped transform teams from U.S. SOCOM, the Air Force, Adobe, Dropbox, Fidelity, Vrbo, Liberty Mutual, Humana, and SAIC.

In our latest podcast, we consider how to transition a massive enterprise to remote by sharing a story of a large organisation that has actually done it.

Can empathy be scaled within an organisation? And if so, how can middle-management get started? We talk to Dana Publicover, founder of Tiny Piñata - a thought partner for changemakers stuck in the grind based out of Greensboro, North Carolina.

What role can design play in a business? No better person to ask than the design manager at Airbnb, Tin Kadoic. We talked about the role of design, the organisational structure needed to make it work and the culture required to enable people to do their best work.

How digital and organisational transformation comes from a user-first place.

Tim sits down with Amy and Harriet to bring you insights and opinions on the rising influence of the solo travel experience. What can be done to attract the market and what are some companies already doing with great success?

Design Lead Tim Drake sits down with social specialist Chris Robinson as we talk about the state of trust in brands and why certain social approaches and strategies do more harm than good. Also, we talk influencers including artificial intelligence.

Tim Drake sits down with Harriet Nicholson our resident strategist at Etch as they talk about Slow Travel offering insights, tips and considerations for businesses operating in the travel and hospitality industry where these growing trends are making a huge and transformative impact.

We need to give people the confidence they need to restructure their working practices to embrace the remote working lifestyle. That's the message from Matthew Goddard, MD of UX Consultancy and author of Ready For Remote.

This episode, Tim and Amy talk about the art and the science behind storytelling. It's the oldest form of education, but how can you use a narrative arc in your brand's communications, or presentations? How does user research inform the stories we tell to our customers? What would it be like if politicians followed a design thinking approach to understanding? And the big question: is honesty and transparency always the best policy?

What is creative burnout and is there some science behind it? We talk about the remedies of how to reduce it and further insights from the Google Sprint Conference in Boulder, Colorado.

"The innovation most companies need will not be authorized." This quote by Greg Larkin, author of This Might Get Me Fired is the topic of discussion in this episode. We talk about the mental model of outsourcing innovation and why it really works.

Jargon, idioms, tone and riddles. Business is full of it. The language we choose can bring people closer or push them away. Why do people use it and how do you know how to say what you mean?

How do you form good habits, how "speed-bumps" can help, and how to stop reaching for your phone all the time.

Design leadership, problem solving and innovation. Maicol Parker-Chavez is a Business Designer and Design Sprint Facilitator. He helps organisations build better solutions, faster through inclusion and design. Maicol says "We don't like hearing that our ideas suck, but we need to and wouldn't you'd rather hear that your idea sucks after one day than after one month, even one year?"

Understanding the way that people learn and the reasons why sometimes, businesses don't want to change. We speak with Robyn Dooley.